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Although offshoring has existed in a variety of forms for decades, its controversy continues unabated. The debate includes whether offshoring actually saves money or not, what activities are and are not good candidates for offshoring, and most controversial of all, its effect on employment in the consuming countries. This Executive Report discusses the offshoring phenomena in an historical context, investigates whether offshoring has actually resulted in IT-related job losses, and examines its effect on IT-related occupations in the US and Europe.
July 31, 2010 | Authored By: Sara Cullen, Madina Manap, Alejandro Rosales, Nupur Gupta
Extreme Programming (XP) has a lot of practices for programmers, and it sounds like it might be just for programmers. But nothing could be further from the truth. XP is a software process focused on rapid delivery of value to the enterprise.
January 31, 2002 | Authored By: Ron Jeffries
THE CHANGING FACE OF OUTSOURCING In its early incarnations, IT outsourcing was synonymous with the transfer of data-processing operations.
December 31, 1999 | Authored By: Ian Hayes
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Over the past few years, it seems more disasters and emergencies have impacted businesses around the world than in any other time in history. Natural disasters, terrorist activities, and criminal actions are affecting organizations of all sizes.
May 31, 2007 | Authored By: Rebecca Herold
Jeff Smith dreamed of making an Agile culture something you could learn, practice, measure, and improve. In this Amplify Update, the second in a series, we follow Smith as he moves from Suncorp to IBM and then World Kinect, defying conventional wisdom to lead these companies on a digital transforming journey. Even as Smith communicated the journey’s purpose simply and clearly, mandated culture change, radically reformed the middle management layer, and modernized delivery, he never forgot the importance of balancing performance with people.
February 7, 2024 | Authored By: Jim Highsmith